RESEARCHER PROFILE
Shiv Ganesh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is also the Editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, published by the National Communication Association.
Shiv’s research focuses on civil society organising in the context of contemporary globalization and technological processes. His PhD, which he received from Purdue University in the US, was a study of global sustainable development discourse and information technology in NGOs. More lately, his work has focused on activist organising and social movements in the context of globalization. He was a principal investigator from 2007 to 2009 of a Marsden grant, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, which investigated organizing processes in contemporary global social justice movements in Aotearoa New Zealand. He also recently co-edited a special issue on Intercultural Dialogue, which will be featured in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
Shiv’s current research furthers his interest in issues of globalization, social change and democracy. He is currently leading a study of “eco-localization” community initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand in the context of global ecological and capitalist crises. Another project, in collaboration with Prof. Heather Zoller at the University of Cincinnati, interrogates theoretical connections and disjunctures between activism and dialogue in the context of democratic social change.
Shiv ‘s work has recently received recognition from several international academic associations. He received a top paper award in 2009, along with Kirsty Barber, from the International Communication Association. The paper, which extended his dissertation research on global digital divides and NGOs, was eventually published in the journal Human Relations. The second edition of his co-authored book with George Cheney, Lars Christensen and Ted Zorn, Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization: Issues, Reflections and Practices, received an award in 2010 from the National Communication Association. And a study on the impact of global neoliberalism on discourses about careers, co-authored with Juliet Roper and Kerr Inkson, won an award from the Careers division of the Academy of Management in 2010. The study was eventually published in the journal Work, Employment & Society. Some of his publications from the last two years include:
Ganesh, S. & Holmes, P.M. (in press). Positioning intercultural dialogue: Theories, pragmatics and an agenda. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 4.3, p.n.a.
Ganesh, S., and Zorn, T.E. (in press) Running the race: Competition discourse and broadband growth in Aotearoa New Zealand. Media, Culture & Society.
Ganesh, Shiv; Stohl, Cynthia (2010), Qualifying engagement: A study of information and communication technology and the global social justice movement in Aotearoa New Zealand, Communication Monographs, 77 (1) : 51-74.
Roper, J.R., Ganesh, S. & Inkson, K. (2010). Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse. Work, Employment & Society. 24.4, 661-679.
Ganesh, Shiv; McAllum, Kirstie (2010), Well-being as discourse: Potentials and problems for studies of organizing and health inequalities, Management Communication Quarterly, 24 (3) : 491-498.
Ganesh, Shiv; Barber, Kirsty (2009), The silent community: Organizing zones in the digital divide, Human Relations, 62 (2) : 851-874.
Ganesh, Shiv; McAllum, Kirstie (2009), Discourses of volunteerism, Communication Yearbook, 33, 343-384.
Ganesh, Shiv (2009), OrganiZational communication and OrganiSational communication: Binaries and the fragments of a field, Communication Journal of New Zealand, 10 (2) : 6-17.
Please feel free to contact Shiv at sganesh@waikato.ac.nz.
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